Brett Favre: Are the Vikings That Much Better With Him?

August 23, 2010   ·   Erik Landau   ·   Jump to comments

Tonight, Brett Favre opens his season with a Preseason matchup against the San Francisco 49ers. After all the hoopla that annually surrounds Favre's offseasons, football is here again for Favre.
The 40-year-old gunslinger is admittedly one of my two favorite players of all-time, yet I am even sick of his premadonna ways outside the field. While on the field however, I enjoy every minute of his kid like enthusiasm and endless determination to play every game on the schedule.
As he begins the quest on his twentieth season, I ponder if Favre can be what the Vikings need? He has butted heads with the Head Coach in Brad Childress which could be a detriment on this team, if not for the resolve I see in this veteran squad. He is another year older and we still do not know how his ankle is going to hold up. That being said, this is still Brett Favre and he will gut out a way to get through the ankle no matter the pain or the cost on his body.
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